Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Cockatoo'
This cultivar forms a bush that is compact and very dense and grows to plus/minus 1m tall x plus/minus 1m wide. The leaves are covered with fine hairs which gives them a greyish bloom. They are oblanceolate in shape and vary from 6 to 12cm in length. The stems are also covered in fine
hairs. The inflorescence is large, averaging 7cm in diameter. The ray florets are very numerous and are plus/minus 21.5cm long. They are a light lemon yellow in colour, with odd flowers showing mottled ray florets of a deeper yellow colour. The disc florets are a golden orange. The flowers are
displayed well on long stems held some 12-15cm above the foliage. The flowering period is spread over spring, summer and autumn but some flowers are found all year round.
Diagnosis:
The cultivar differs from its parents in the colour of its inflorescence and the size and shape of the shrub. Its perennial habit is the same as for both parents.
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Barleythorpe'
This cultivar grows into a dense shrub plus/minus 60cm tall by
up to 1m wide. The leaves are similar in size and shape to X. 'Dargan Hill
Monarch' but lack the dense tomentum of that cultivar. The inflorescence is
much the same size as X. 'Dargan Hill Monarch', being some 7-9cm in
diameter. X. 'Barleythorpe' has inner involucral bracts that are narrower
and more numerous than in B. 'Dargan Hill Monarch'. The inflorescence is
golden yellow in colour and the flowering season extends from spring to
autumn.
Diagnosis:
Xerochrysum 'Barleythorpe' can be distinguished from B. 'Dargan
Hill Monarch' by the more numerous and narrower inner involucral bracts and
the less tomentose leaves.
Comparators:
Xerochrysum 'Dargan Hill Monarch' CBG 8006644.
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Golden Bowerbird'
Xerochrysum 'Golden Bowerbird' forms a shrub plus/minus 40cm
tall by 70cm wide and has foliage very similar to both parents. The foliage
is grey in appearance due to the heavy tomentum covering the leaves. The
inflorescences of the cultivar are carried plus/minus 10cm above the
foliage and are up to 10cm across, through more commonly are 9cm across.
They are larger than the inflorescences of both the parents. The bracts are
numerous, averaging 300 per inflorescence, compared with 80 in Bracteantha
'Dargan Hill Monarch' and 200 in Xerochrysum 'Cockatoo'. This gives a
"doubled" appearance to the inflorescence. The buds are brown in colour and
open to reveal clear yellow bracts and golden orange disc florets. The
florets are plus/minus 2.5cm in diameter.
Diagnosis:
Xerochrysum 'Golden Bowerbird' is easily distinguished from both
the parent forms by its much larger inflorescences, the far more numerous
ray florets, and the bush is smaller and more compact than either of the
parents. It is also a much brighter gold in colour than Xerochrysum
'Cockatoo'.
Comparators:
Xerochrysum 'Dargan Hill Monarch' CBG 8006644;
Xerochrysum 'Cockatoo' CBG 7911034.
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Dargan Hill Monarch'
It is a low growing, rounded, soft wooded evergreen shrub growing to a height of 0.6-0.8m and about 1.5m in diameter. The leaves are grey and woolly and are 100-120mm in length at their widest point which is beyond the midpoint. The midrif is prominent although depressed whilst the
margins are slightly recurved. The flower heads are lustrous golden-yellow and between 70-90mm in diameter and are borne on long stems about 300mm in length. The ray florets are papery and remain on the plant for some months.
Diagnosis:
This cultivar is different from other known forms of B. bracteata in that of the grey foliage and flower size. The typical X. bracteanthum has green foliage and flower heads about 50mm in diameter.
Xerochrysum bracteatum 'Diamond Head'
Owing to the exposed position this plant grows in, it has developed a stable prostrate habit which reduces its height to
approximately 8cm. Flower heads are held above the level of the plants
adding about 8cm to its height during the flowering season which begins in
early November and continues through to mid February. Overall height,
therefore, is approximately 16cm. Individual plants will grow to
approximately 60cm across and are perennial. Leaves green, approximately
7cm long and about 5mm wide. They are rough to the touch due to a covering
on both upper and lower surfaces of short stout hairs. Flowers bright
yellow, approximately 3cm across. The ray florets are papery and remain on
the plant for some months. The centre of each flower head is orange.
DIAGNOSIS:The main feature which distinguishes this cultivar from other
forms of <X. bracteatum> is that of its height and perennial habit.
Chamelaucium uncinatum 'Local Hero'
A rounded shrub with waxy pink flowers growing to approximately 2m high x 1.5m wide.
Syzygium australe 'AN1'
This selection has variegated leaves which give a silvery appearance. Shrub form 2-3 metres in diameter, flowers white with pink elongated fruit. Comparitor: Syzygium australe ‘4tune8one’ Diagnosis: Syzygium australe 'AN1' is very dense with short internodes with medium to strong leaf blade glaucosity and strong weeping habit. Newly emerged leaves are yellow green 152A progressing to mature green N137A. Newly emerged leaf blade is yellow green 152A and progresses to greyed green 188A.
Syzygium australe ‘4tune8one’ is dense with medium length internodes and no leaf blade glaucosity and medium to strong weeping habit. Newly emerged leaves are greyed red 178A progressing to mature yellow green 147A. Newly emerged leaf blade is greyed red 178A and progresses to yellow green 146A.